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• Creepy Book Recs

  At last, my final book recs list for Spooktober 2025. This one is all about the creepy, the eerie, the horrifying, and the unsettling. Making these lists has been so much fun, but I can’t lie – I will be happy to go back to my four posts a week schedule in November. I have…

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  October 26, 2025

  Discussion Posts, Horror

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• Kirsty Gunn’s Pretty Ugly – A Short Story Collection Full of Human Emotion

  Would it be fair if I only reviewed one short story collection this month? Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is a darkly-fascinating, ominously-enticing read, and I felt myself being drawn into the writing with no desire to pull back. Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story…

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  June 27, 2025

  NZ Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• The Book of the Unnamed Midwife: Meg Elison’s Intense Sci-Fi Masterpiece

  Winner of the 2014 Philip K Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is an incredible science fiction read that is confronting, chilling, and wonderfully constructed. If you are one for adult dystopian, end-of-the-world science fiction that leans a little dark and heavy, then this is the book…

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  April 14, 2025

  adult fantasy, science fiction

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• My November 2024 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: jittery. I have been busy this month which has meant I have had to separate myself from my reading stack in my room. Jokes aside, the first half of November was full of work, uni seminars, networking events and family celebrations, and as such I haven’t read as much as I maybe anticipated.…

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  November 30, 2024

  Discussion Posts

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• Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties – Genre-Bending and Unique

  Another day, another short story collection to pass the time. Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties is a genre-blending selection of tales that will both titillate and terrify you. Mixing science fiction and horror with literary fiction with a heavy smattering of some sexually explicit details, this collection is full of LGBTQ+ representation…

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  November 28, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction, Horror, Poetry and Short Stories, science fiction

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